Category: Dr. Dan’s Blog

Good Workshop Today!

Good Workshop Today! I thought that Dr. Santiago did a nice job with a very difficult topic in today’s workshop on PTSD. I don’t know about you, but I learned a few things. He was very direct that Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is not well defined in the DSM-IV & is a work-in-progress for the…

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Psychiatric Responses to Trauma and Disaster

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Psychiatric Responses to Trauma and Disaster Another timely workshop topic from Foundations Community Partnership. Dr. Patcho Santiago’s December 2, 2009, workshop on psychiatric responses to trauma will address how the psychological response to trauma will determine how a person, a family or a community recovers. From campus shootings, the attack on the…

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What A Great Workshop

What A Great Workshop What a great workshop. On the “Edutainment Scale” (Edutainment = Educational Information presented in an Entertaining format), Dr. Kendall’s presentation scored 10 of 10 points! His workshop managed to cram 400+ publications and 24 years of experience running an anxiety clinic into a 3 hour presentation. I was getting anxious when…

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FCP "Anxiety in Youth" Workshop with Dr. Phillip Kendall

FCP “Anxiety in Youth“ Workshop with Dr. Phillip Kendall Thursday, November 5, 2009, Phillip Kendall, Ph.D., Professor, Author, and Director of the Child and Adolescent Anxiety Disorders Clinic at Temple University will provide an overview of the nature, symptoms and experience of anxiety in youth. He will address specific treatment intervention strategies that comprise Cognitive…

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Welcome To the FCP 2009 Fall Workshops!

Welcome To the FCP 2009 Fall Workshops! This Fall (2009), Foundations Community Partnership will present two informative and exciting workshops for mental health professionals, educators, consumers and all others interested in children and adolescent behavioral health issues. On Thursday, November 5, 2009, Philip Kendall, Ph.D., Professor, Author, and Director of the Child and Adolescent Anxiety…

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Final Workshops for the Foundations Community Partnership, Mental Health Lecture Series, May 6, 2009.

Final Workshops for the Foundations Community Partnership, Mental Health Lecture Series, May 6, 2009. Morning Session: Teach Your Parents Well: “Adolescent Development in a Dysfunctional World” Elio Frattaroli, M.D. The process of healing, growing, becoming our fully human selves is a lifelong process, energized by a powerful life force inside us, which is particularly strong…

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